Botox is it worth it?

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Im 50 and all of a sudden I have wrinkles and lines which are really aging, I also look like I’m permanently scowling or growling with collapsed eye brows. Also hate my 11 lines.

I just want to look like a fresher version of my self. Anyone relate? Did Botox fix it for you?

A friend of mine does it, shes really good. I pay £160 for 3 areas only crows feet and above though. I also had tear trough fillers a couple of times, they look amazing but I have really sensitive skin so can look a bit battered for a while so I am debating whether to do it again, I suspect when they wear off I'll want them.

I have just had it so will go in 2 weeks for top up, I have one side that is a lot stronger than the other, also the top of my head doesn't take really well straight away so we are just tweaking it to get it right. It's only my 2nd time on my forehead, 3rd time for crows feet (which lasts absolutely ages)

It really looks natural and no one notices other than a few people my skin looked great.

Is late 60’s too old?
Probably have to mortgage the house to afford all the stuff I would need. lol

Take a look at Simon Cowell, or Tom Cruise and come back and tell us all about how men don't do this. Of course they do. They also do lots of other expensive things to present themselves as well as they possibly can.

Loads of men have botox, its definitely not just women.

I wouldn't use Simon Cowell as an example if you're pro-botox, he looks fucking ridiculous.

I'm sure the vast majority of you look fabulous and well rested / relaxed, etc however it's delusional to think no one knows your secret. As treatments go it's quite a common one.

Its not botox that makes him look that awful, he must have various fillers also. He looks way OTT, most people who have it look great.

Wrong.

You think men don't do this.

I know three men who do - they're all tradesman and you'd never guess, but they go with their wives and get it done.

Oh it's no secret. I tell fucking everyone!

They really, really don't.

Joker brows, shiny forehead, weird line formation around top of nose.

Eerie expressions that just creep me out. Brrrrr.

thats the people who have had it done really badly/too much though, they look awful, weird and unnatural. You probably don't know half the people who have had it.

Sally Nugent on bbc breakfast has all those problems with her botox. If someone as high profile as her can't get it right what hope does Mrs Miggins down the road have?

Delulu.

Look at you, talking shit all over the place then deflecting when people correct you.

I didn't use Simon Cowell as an example of good botox, I used him as an example of how you're wrong.

It's OK to not want botox, and to dislike the idea of it, and to rail against society's ridiculous standards of beauty. I respect your point of view as should everyone, if you could just make it without being unnecessarily rude and/or saying stuff that's patently stupid and wrong.

I think you vastly overestimate how much we think about it day to day. You may be going around scrutinising everyone's foreheads for microscopic signs of something you don't like, we just get it done and get on with life. The anti Botox brigade seems to notice it all the time. I can't remember the last time I did.

Yes, you're right that it's common, which actually makes it harder to spot.

Anyway, if someone can tell, because Lord knows enough of you lot are obsessed with doing so...so what? I notice dyed hair and makeup every day. And?

You are really, really embarrassing yourself.

i love it. i have hooded eyes and they really crinkly -
botox has sorted that and wrinkles.

i feel fresher and still can move my eyebrows and express self.

i go to a clinician who does a private clinic - i just feel more comfy knowing it is being done by someone who does this as their day job and medically trained.

and i do think mine is more natural than some
friends i have whose faces have a still quality

@WhenWereYouUnderMe me too 🤣 I still get asked for ID aged 38 and my first words back are always 'oh it must be the Botox!' 🤣

I am 52. Anyone want to guess if I have had Botox or not? Not a great pic as the light in my living room isn't great today, but nevertheless. Please ignore my roots!

Sorry, killed the thread!

Wow that's quite an outburst. Did I touch a nerve????

Well how would you know 😂

Why is someone always triggered or having an outburst if they respond to shitty posts? It's such a childish bullshit way of trying to win. Grow up and let the adults talk...

The most hilarious posts are the ones where we keep getting told that we can’t possibly like something of our own accord and anything such as Botox we only do to please men and/or because of the patriarchy and/or because we have crippingly low self esteem…

Being told not to let men dictate how we live our lives… whilst being dictated to about what we should and shouldn’t do. Oh the irony!

Lol well I'm single by choice. I wonder who my twice yearly baby-Botox is for? The cat maybe 😻.

I usually avoid these threads but I am going to comment.

I know some people who have had botox. All of them have some serious spare cash, so can afford to go to top clinics. There seem to be 2 types;

a) Those who have had a low dose, perhaps baby botox. Honestly, I saw no difference. Why bother? They looked a bit refreshed. Honestly, a bottle of Charlotte Tilbury Glow would do that for you.

b) Those who I can tell immediately.

With b) I can give a good example. I know someone who was really wrinkly. All of a sudden she has no wrinkles whatsoever, her forehead is shiny and tight, all under her eyes seems to have been stretched back to her earlobes. I think it is all botox. The few times I have seen her everyone has said "wow, you look great". Does she look younger? Not sure. She just looks different. She might look fresher, and have no lines, but she looks like she has had botox. She thinks she looks great, and I don't think she thinks it is noticeable and no one is going to say to her "nice botox".

I know a few cases of b) and I don't know why, but it seems to get my back up a bit which surprises me as I am not usually a jealous or vain person. It makes me feel pressurised. It makes me feel like if I don't get botox or fillers or whatever, then I'll be the old crow in the corner. It also gets on my nerves as I am a really healthy person. I go down the gym 5 times a week, I run half marathons, I drink 2L of water a day, I work really, really hard to keep my menopausal weight down, and look after myself. I religiously look after my skin with natural products. The people I know who "look great with botox and fillers" do none of this. The person above is not prepared to go the gym and work hard for results. They don't like the way they look, how they are aging, so they drop thousands on injecting chemicals into their face and get an instant "wow, you look great".

I see it in the same light as many other things. It is instant gratification, I want it now, I'm not prepared to work hard to look good.

So, sorry about the ramblings. I have wanted to say this out loud, but I can't so I have said it here.

Sorry. Missed this.

My guess is you did but not very recently?